This article argues that feminist phenomenology offers a strong account of embodiment and subjectivity. It shows that human experience cannot be fully understood by treating the body as a neutral biological object or the subject as a disembodied consciousness. Instead, people relate to the world through embodied existence formed by gender, social norms, culture, power, history, sexuality, race,...
The rise of embodied cognition and embodied consciousness theories has shifted the focus of modern philosophy of mind to the nature of the connection between the body and the mind. By reinterpreting the Āsana and Prāṇāyāma practices in light of contemporary philosophical discourse on the mind and cognition, this paper delves into the idea of embodied consciousness in Yoga. The research proposes...
This study aimed to compare the effects of mindfulness meditation on stress and well-being in college students. A total of 50 participants were recruited, with 25 self-identified as meditators and 25 as non-meditators. All participants completed self-report measures of stress, well-being, mood, resilience, self-compassion, and academic performance. The results showed that the meditator group...